Read in browser Today's Brief Booking's commission is the cheapest thing it takes from you - Booking collects your guest's money now, holds $8.2 billion of it at a time, and pays you weeks later — and unlike your commission rate, nobody negotiated any of it. Jul 31, 2026 • Hospitality Airbnb added your hotel to stop travelers from leaving its app - Thousands of independent hotels are now bookable inside the Airbnb app, and every featured hotel booking hands the guest credit toward a home — the fine print on what your rooms are really for. Jul 31, 2026 • Hospitality Metadesk What if you could see your hotel metasearch performance graded like a report card? Your free audit evaluates your property's ad position, parity, and price accuracy, then provides a clear action plan to capture more direct bookings. Request your hotel metasearch audit now. Get my free audit Trip.com just put a number on what squeezing hotels was worth to it - The bot that held hotels to the lowest price online is gone — and Trip.com's sales growth fell from 17% to as little as 3%. Jul 31, 2026 • Hospitality Money buys the booking, not the recommendation — and Marriott's about to prove it - Marriott's CEO says he'll reward AI agents to win the booking; OpenAI's says paying to rank a worse hotel is "catastrophic". Jul 31, 2026 • Hospitality San Francisco sued the sites faking your hotel's page. Booking supplied them. - Two middlemen pose as hotel websites and charge up to 85% more with no refunds — and the city says Booking Holdings gave them the rooms and the checkout. Jul 31, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief July 29, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™